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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1937
Page
3
Clermont publication notes Elizabeth Priest as local editor and Town Presse Association member. It is entered in the Clermont post office as second class mail matter, Fayette County, Iowa, published every Thursday morning.
Fred Biermann notes the farm bill cleared the House on December 10 by a 267 to 130 vote after ten days of debate. He singles out disagreements over corn loan provisions, detailing his and others efforts to amend the bill without success.
Lawmakers argue for a compulsory loaned funding approach and lower the corn marketing quotas trigger. The bill sets quotas when total corn supply exceeds about 23 percent above domestic needs and exports, implying over 2.9 billion bushels. Current supply is 2.711 billion, risking ineffective quotas. Corn belt members urged an target around 2.6 billion, seen as high enough.
As I write this letter the senate has not finished considering the Pope McGill bill. When they finish the two houses will confer to work out a compromise between the two measures. The conference committee will include eight to ten long serving members from agriculture committees, leaving no dedicated corn state conferee from either house.
Fraternally Fred Biermann explains voting to recommit a farm bill to the Agriculture Committee, hoping amendments pass, then supports the bill. He discusses the Boileau Amendment shielding dairy farmers from land withdrawn for soil building crops, and explains marketing quotas and price protection mechanisms. He notes the need for a government plan and reflects on diplomacy and a Texas history note about giant warrior Indians.
Mrs. Martine Amundson of Clermont died Tuesday December 14 at age 87. Born in 1850 in Norway, she immigrated with her husband Hans Amundson in 1883 and raised 11 children across Clayton County before settling in Clermont. Funeral services were held December 17 at West Clermont Lutheran Church with Rev. E. E. Ramsey officiating. Burial followed in East Clermont Cemetery alongside her husband. Pallbearers were six grandsons. relatives from Minnesota attended.
We express sincere thanks to friends for love and sympathy in our mother’s passing. Special appreciation to Rev. E. B. Ramsey for comfort and service, choir for singing, Mission Society and Priscilla Working Band for wreaths, relatives and neighbors for memorial gifts to Missions. East and West Clermont Lutheran congregations are also thanked.
The Northwestern National Life Insurance Co study shows an average family of four with $150 monthly income pays $19.10 in hidden taxes each month. A $43.50 food bill includes $3.00 in tax content. rent at $30 per month bears $7.59 in taxes indirectly.
It is natural for dogs to shed their hair twice a year. Excessive shedding in dogs is generally due to some skin trouble.
Mrs J C Halverson returned home Friday from Rochester Minnesota. Nels Larson of Duluth is visiting relatives around Clermont. Mrs Kenneth Smith of Hawkeye was a weekend guest in the Rolfs home. Mr and Mrs Milton Nelson of Monona were dinner guests in the Gunderson home. Margaret Davia and Wilma Steinmetz of Elgin were guests in the Brandt home. Mr and Mrs Fred Rothlisberger of Alyria attended Vesper services in Clermont. Mrs Herman Rolfs returned from Monticello visit. Mrs L L Carr went to Iowa City and returned with her daughter Lavanda for Christmas. Mrs H A Lubke, Mrs John Learn and Herbert Anderson attended Mrs Ernest Bellis funeral in Radolia. Word from Osage says Selmer Sampson’s double pneumonia improving. Phyllis Labke arrived from Minneapolis to visit over holidays with Lubke family. Dinner and bazaar in Volga City hosted by Catholic ladies. Mrs Burke won a turkey. Myrtle Bilden teaching at Farmersburg came home for two weeks’ Christmas vacation. Blanche West and E E Bilden hosting dinner at the Bilden home.
The message urges safe driving and walking during the holiday season. It emphasizes looking out for others on crowded highways and sidewalks and suggests that safety is the best gift, wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for 1938.
The smallest book in the world is a translation of the chief parts of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford England. The tiny volume stands at one quarter inch tall and three sixteenths inch wide.
In medieval reflection on warfare a war like tournament was organized with attempts to apply regular rules. Combatants fought three days a week and were expected to observe the Trace of God from Wednesday night to Monday morning under threat of excommunication.
Miss Mary Ellen White, 32, of Eldora Iowa, wintering with Mr and Mrs Ray Satchell, is believed to be one of two surviving daughters of a War of 1812 veteran. Born Oct 14 1855 in Oskaloosa Iowa, she is sister to Mrs Esther Ann Hill Morgan of Independence Oregon according to release.
W Riley of Cornell University outlines a project by the American Society for Testing Materials to evaluate galvanized farm fencing. A test yard in New York will host weathered fence samples with long term durability records. The study notes copper additions to steel improve rust resistance.
A 225 pound hog yields family size cuts such as 16 pound hams three rib shoulders bacon strips and loins ten to twelve pounds each. Heavier hogs give more lard and fatter bacon which families may find excessive. Healthy dressed hogs are urged for best results.
The Agriculture Department estimates that one half ton of ice per cow cools and holds cream for summer storage, with higher needs if whole milk is cooled. If ice melt exceeds 30 percent, storage must rise. Average family use ranges five to ten tons per season, assuming good ice houses and cooling tanks.
The article notes that trees on boundary lines are held in common by both owners as tenants in common. It cites cases where one side may lop roots near the trunk but newer rulings require consent before destroying a boundary tree. It adds that a landowner has no authority over trees not on the line or on his own land.
Agricultural hints discuss radium dust in soil to speed plant growth, honey production in New York, potato storage effects, feeding raw and cooked potatoes to livestock, Bailey County Texas cotton harvest for stock feed, codling moths life cycle, humane branding in England, milk value comparisons, China's wood production, and Timothy seed imports to meet farming demand.
Washington D C John L Lewin militant C I O leader meets with Wa Green chief of AFL over admitting C I O members to the parent body negotiations reach a stalemate due to objections to the full C I O group further conferences scheduled for later in the month.
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